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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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EDC U 275 - UTeach: Classroom Interactions
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course continues the process of preparing students to teach mathematics, science, and engineering by providing opportunities to apply theories developed in Knowing and Learning in instructional settings. Students design and implement instructional activities informed by their own understanding of what it means to know and learn mathematics and science and then evaluate the outcomes of those activities on the basis of student artifacts (i.e., what students say, do, or create). An important focus of the course is on building students’ awareness and understanding of equity issues and their effects on student learning. Students are provided frameworks for thinking about equity issues in the classroom and larger school settings, and they learn strategies for teaching students with learning differences and diverse backgrounds equitably. Additionally, the course introduces ways curriculum and technology are used in classroom settings to build relationships among teachers and students and provide access to learning opportunities for all. Students engage deeply with science and mathematics content, reflecting on their own and others’ learning and problem solving, as well as the underlying structures of these disciplines and their relation to other fields of inquiry. In essence, Classroom Interaction is centered on a close examination of the interplay between teachers, students, content, and the world beyond schools, and how such interactions enable students to develop deep conceptual understanding. Students learn how content and pedagogy combine to make effective teaching.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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EDC U 310 - Technology & Education
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is an introduction to using computers and technology in education in responding to the ISTE National Technology Standards for Teachers and Students. The various uses of computers and K-12 educational applications in different content areas are examined. Students explore pedagogical and ethical issues that are raised by the use of computers in the classroom. In addition, students explore various criteria for effective use of technology in the classroom. Finally, the course looks at varied approaches in which technology may be used as mindful tools to facilitate changes in the ways teachers teach and students learn.
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EDC U 370 - UTeach: Perspectives on Science and Mathematics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Perspective on Science and Mathematics course explores a selection of topics and episodes in the history of science and mathematics. You will understand that these disciplines are not merely a body of facts, theories, and techniques. rather, they involve diverse processes by which knowledge is continually generated and reformulated. Sciences typically discussed in Perspectives include biology, physics, geology, astronomy, and chemistry. The course traces the development of key notions in these sciences and seeks to correct common myths or defective portrayals of history in science textbooks. We will also discuss the question of whether mathematics is itself a science. The course provides historical perspectives on how practical needs, social conflicts, and even individual personalities shaped the content and direction of the disciplines. An additional objective of the course is to convey that scientific and mathematical concepts are not static. The goal of the course is to promote among UTeach students the understanding that even the most basic ideas of science and mathematics are dynamic, despite the way this information is presented in K-12 textbooks.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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EDC U 375 - UTeach: Functions and Modeling
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course, students will engage in explorations and lab activities designed to strengthen and expand knowledge of the topics found in secondary mathematics. Students will collect data and explore a variety of situations that can be modeled using linear, exponential, polynomial, and trigonometric functions. Topics involving function properties and patterns, complex numbers, parametric equations, polar equations, vectors, and exponential growth and decay will be investigated. Explorations will involve the use of multiple representations, transformations, data analysis techniques (such as curve fitting) and interconnections among topics in algebra, analytic geometry, statistics, trigonometry, and calculus. The lab investigations will include use of various technologies including computers, calculators, and computer graphing software. Within each of the four units included in the course, the activities by which students learn are chosen and designed to do one of more of the following: 1. Take a second, deeper look at topics that have been exposed to previously; 2. Illuminate the connections between secondary and college mathematics; 3. Illustrate good (as opposed to the all too often poor, sometimes counterproductive) use of technology in teaching; 4. Illuminate the connections between various areas of mathematics; 5. Involvement as a student in serious (i.e., non-routine) problem solving; 6. Engage in problem-based learning; 7. Engage in non-routine applications of mathematics. This is a course designed to make students think.
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EDC U 406 - Sociocultural Perspectives: Building School, Family & Community Relationships
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Examine the interrelationships among students, schools and society. Learn about the ways in which race, class, gender, language, culture, and ethnicity influence how we define each other and ourselves within the broader culture of U.S. society. Explore the historical antecedents influencing the lives of exclusive and diverse peoples of the United States, as a foundation for understanding the policies, goals, assumptions, strategies, and practices of multicultural approaches to education. Draw on various models to construct educational curricula that are multicultural and socially re-constructionist. Within the context of public schooling today, read about how to develop students’ “cultural consciousness” of the shared societal assumptions, experiences and/or our interactions with individuals from diverse backgrounds. Prepracticum experiences will deepen understandings of the interrelationships among students, schools and society.
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EDC U 410 - Computers-Tech & Edu
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to using computers and technology in education. The various uses of computers and technology in education are examined in depth as participants are introduced to a wide variety of K-12 educational software and the Internet and explore the pedagogical issues raised by the use of computers for students, teachers, and school administrators. These include consequences for learning, problem solving, organizing data, creativity, and an integrated curriculum. Finally, the course looks at ways in which technology may help facilitate changes in the ways teachers teach and students learn and ultimately may stimulate reform in education. The course has a field component where students observe computer use in the classroom.
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EDC U 422 - Middle & Secondary Pre-Practicum I
1 - 6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Course Description to be renumbered to EDCG 422 The pre-practicum, the culminating experience for teacher candidates, provides student with opportunities to observe how theory and technique of education are being used through a year-long observation in a classroom. Students observe how classroom teachers are applying the teaching methods and theories in their real practice.
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EDC U 423 - Middle & Secondary Pre-Practicum II
1 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This classroom experience in an urban public school provides opportunities for the pre-service teacher to observe the teaching of a master teacher, begin to assume responsibility for the educational experience of students, and become familiar with curriculum and teaching materials. This practical experience is designed to correspond to the theory and instruction being presented in EDCG 497O Curriculum Development in Elementary Schools. Students enrolled in this course will engage in direct participation in a developmental set of experiences in an elementary setting.
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EDC U 446 - Understanding Reading: Principles & Practices
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Introduction to theoretical and instructional issues involved in the acquisition of literacy; provide research-based practical constructs for knowledgeable decision making; consider effective ways of creating and managing an inclusionary, balanced literacy development program, which addresses the needs of children who are culturally and linguistically diverse. Topics include: oral language and the impacts of emergent literacy development, lesson planning with particular attention to selection of appropriate literacy materials, strategies for beginning reading and writing, literacy development for English language learners, and strengthening family literacy connections. Across topics, emphasis is on teacher’s roll as an observer, and the use of assessment to guide instruction. This course is taken with ECHD 490 or ECHD 491, a full time practicum.
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EDC U 451 - Rethinking Equity and Teaching for English Language Learners
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course fulfills the Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) endorsement requirement for core academic teachers outlined by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as part of the Commonwealth’s Rethinking Equity and Teaching for English Language Learners (RETELL) initiative. The RETELL initiative comes at a time when teachers of all students, and teachers of multilingual learners (MLLs) in particular, must be equipped to address the needs and build on the assets of a diverse and ever- changing student population in Massachusetts. The introduction of various educational reforms requires teachers to assume new roles and responsibilities in their classrooms. This course will support the professional growth of educators and the teaching and learning of all students in this time of change.
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EDC U 460 - DSG SEC CUR&LRN STRA
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines current principles of curriculum and instruction, as well as state and national standards for the teaching of the disciplines at the middle and secondary school levels. Students review teaching materials and methods, design curriculum units, develop strategies for communicating with students from diverse backgrounds, do micro-teaching, design assessment and evaluation instruments, and critique their own and one another’s efforts. This is a field-based course in which students are asked to reflect on the learning and teaching they see in a variety of school sites and apply what they observe as they design curriculum units.
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EDC U 466 - Teaching and Learning in the Discipline History and Social Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of teaching the social studies, including history, civics and government, geography, and economics, at the middle and secondary levels. Students will design units of study, individual lessons, and assessments in social studies attentive to the increasing socioeconomic, cultural, linguistic, and ability-level diversity of students in today’s classrooms. A required field experience component is included; students are responsible for securing access to a classroom at the level of licensure sought.
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EDC U 467 - Teaching & Learning in the Discipline English
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of teaching English in middle and secondary classrooms, in particular in ways that take into account the needs and expectations of diverse learners in a multicultural society. The course focuses on participants’ on-going inquiry and reflection of field experiences. Participants will connect observed teaching practices, experiences of learners within the major components of the English curriculum, and the relationship and impact of the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and high stakes testing preparation on the best practices.
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EDC U 470 - UTeach: Research Methods
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Learning about science includes both learning material that has already been established (e.g., the structure of DNA, how to find forces on blocks being pushed up a ramp, the definition of an acid) and learning how scientists gained this knowledge (e.g., how new discoveries gain authority and are adopted by the scientific community, how to evaluate scientific claims when they conflict, how to design and carry out investigations to answer new questions). Most high school and undergraduate college science courses are devoted to presenting the first type of knowledge. Education in the second aspect of science has traditionally been left to graduate school. Research Methods simultaneously provides students specific techniques needed to address scientific questions and examples of how to provide this sort of training for students through individualized instruction. Core Components: 1. The course is primarily a laboratory course in which students develop and practice skills that are fundamental to the scientific enterprise. 2. The course is organized around four independent inquiries that UTeach students design carry out. 3. The course emphasizes the use of mathematics to model and explain both the natural and man-made worlds. 4. The course requires a substantial amount of writing. The written inquiries that students produce are evaluated as examples of scientific writing. 5. The course emphasizes the development of skills that are directly applicable in teaching secondary science and mathematics (e.g., use of equipment, preparation of lab materials, safety issues, and use of technology).
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EDC U 475 - UTeach: Project-Based Instruction
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Project-Based Instruction (PBI) course is based on the premise that project-based instruction engages learners in exploring authentic, important, and meaningful questions of real concern to secondary students. Project-based instruction promotes equitable and diverse participation and engages high school student sin learning. They learn fundamental science and mathematical concepts and principles that they can apply to their daily lives. The overall goal of this course is to help mathematics and science pre-service teachers develop the knowledge, dispositions, and skills needed to be effective teachers in middle and high schools. A major focus of this course is in developing an approach to designing, implementing, and evaluation problem-and project-based curricula and processes by employing approaches that have emerged from collaborations between teachers and researchers. Specifically, four common design principles are emphasized: 1. Defining learning appropriate goals that lead to deep understanding. 2. Providing scaffolds such as beginning with problem-based learning activities before completing a project; using embedded teaching, teaching tools, and a set of contrasting cases. 3. Including multiple opportunities for formative self-assessment. 4. Developing social structures that promote participation and revision. PBI has three essential components: Theory-driven perspective: Students learn about how people learn and how project-based instruction may be among our most informed classroom learning environments for bridging the gap between theory and practice. Instructional development: Students develop technological and pedagogical content knowledge as they work toward the design of project-based units. They continually build competency as they read about and discuss the principles of PBI, reflect on observations of project-based learning environments in high school settings, and incorporate what they are learning into the design of problem-based lessons and ultimately, and entire project-based unit. Field experience: An intensive field component includes observation of well-implemented project-based instruction in local schools as well as implementation of problem-based lessons with area high school students on a study field trip.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: EDC U 270 and EDC U 275
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EDC U 497 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
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EDC U 499 - Practicum & Seminar
12 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Each practicum provides students with the opportunity to put theory and technique into practice at the level of their specialization. Students demonstrate their teaching skills in a school, with supervision by both a certified cooperating teacher and a member of the University faculty. They also attend a seminar led by the latter. The seminar provides an opportunity for student teachers to share their practicum experiences, to try out and critique plans and ideas, to air and solve problems, and to reflect on the process by which they are becoming education professionals. A formal application to do a practicum must be filed with the Advising Office by October 1 for a spring practicum or by March 1 for a fall practicum.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ENGIN 103 - Introduction to Engineering
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Via team projects and discussions, students will discover the tools of engineering design, data analysis and modeling, estimations, spreadsheets, oral presentations, logbook, written reports, web page building, movies making, graphical programming, teamwork, leadership, project management, and problem-solving skills. Not only for prospective engineering students, also for those seeking important skills to succeed in college and/or the job market.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
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ENGIN 104 - Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Students will work in teams to build and test electrical circuits and to explore the basics of signal processing and data modeling. The essentials of computer programming are introduced using languages such as LabVIEW and Matlab with the goal of enabling students to use the computer effectively in subsequent courses. Students will develop codes in computer languages such as LabVIEW and Matlab to analyze circuits and to design and apply digital filters. Teamwork, logbook, presentations, and report writing are integral components of the course. No previous programming experience is required.
Enrollment Requirements:
Students in computer engineering, electrical engineering, and engineering physics only
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ENGIN 202 - Statics (Mechanical Engineering)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A vector treatment of the equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies. Topics include: vector algebra, forces, moments, couples, equations of equilibrium, free-body diagrams, graphical techniques, constraints, structures and mechanisms, friction, centroids and moments of inertia, the method of virtual work. (Course offered in the fall only.)
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHYSIC 113
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ENGIN 211L - Engineering Mathematics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course students will learn important math concepts and techniques they will need to study engineering topics such as circuit analysis, signal processing, electromagnetic fields and wavers, etc. Topics include complex numbers and functions. Laplace transform, Fourier series and transform, first and second order differential equations, partial differential equations, vector differential calculus, matrix algebra, and probability and statistics. For each of these topics, engineering applications will be emphasized, and when appropriate, numerical solutions will be introduced.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MATH 141
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ENGIN 221 - Strength of Materials I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Notions of stress, strain and Mohr’s circle; tension; shear and torsion; plane stress and plane strain; moments of inertia. Shear force and bending moment diagrams. Depletion of beams; indeterminate beams; Castigliano’s principle; plastic bending of beams. Mechanical properties of materials. (Course offered in the spring only.)
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 202
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ENGIN 222 - Dynamics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A vector treatment of dynamics. Kinematics of a particle in two and three dimensions. Dynamics of a particle; momentum, moment of momentum, and work-energy. Rigid bodies in plane motion; kinematics and dynamics. Relative motion. (Course offered in the spring only.)
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 202
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ENGIN 231 - Circuit Analysis I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Mathematical models for circuit elements, basic circuit laws, techniques for writing and solving circuit equations. Circuit theorems, operational amplifiers, first- and second-order circuits. Numerical methods of circuit analysis.
Enrollment Requirements:
Pre- or corequisite: PHYSIC 114
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ENGIN 232 - Circuit Analysis II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Analysis of AC circuits using phasors, mutual inductance and the dot convention, ideal transformers, power analysis, balanced three-phase circuits, frequency response and Bode plots, transfer functions, and application of Laplace and Fourier transforms in circuit analysis. Students use PSPICE to check their results.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 231
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ENGIN 241 - Digital Systems with Lab
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Concepts of digital measurement, counting, timing and switching, basic logic concepts, basic theorems in Boolean algebra, manipulation of logic statements, binary information gates, application of logic gates, flip-flops and multivibrators, counters, registers and readouts, and other combinational and sequential circuits. Note: When this course is not being offered, students may instead take PHYSIC 392 (Digital Electronics with Lab).
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 231 or permission of instructor
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ENGIN 246 - Computer Organization and Assembly Language
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Introduction to the organization of general-purpose computers and assembly language programming. Topics include: fundamentals of CPU design, Instruction Set Architectures (ISA) design, number systems and computer arithmetic, datapath and controller abstraction and design, parallelism and pipelines, hierarchical memory design and operation, input/output systems and storage, and assembly language programming.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CS 109 or CS 110
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ENGIN 263 - Engineering Thermodynamics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The objective of the science of thermodynamics is to describe the state of matter and its interactions with surrounding s in terms of macroscopic properties such as temperature, pressure, etc. The course will introduce the fundamentals of science of classical thermodynamics. Historical perspectives on the evolution of this field and its gradual development into a modern branch of science will be presented. Upon successful completion of the course, students are expected to be capable of applying the First and the Second Laws of thermodynamics to the analyze the performance and efficiency of pumps, compressors, turbines, nozzles, diffusers, and other engineering systems.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PHYSIC 114 and PHYSIC 182
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ENGIN 271 - Circuit Lab I
1 Credit(s) | Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introductory electrical measurements and linear circuit analysis laboratory to accompany ENGIN 231 (Circuit Analysis I). Topics include voltage and current division in resistive networks, circuit theorems, operational amplifiers, first- and second-order circuits, power transfer, capacitors and inductors.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: ENGIN 231
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ENGIN 272 - Circuit Lab II
1 Credit(s) | Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An electrical measurements laboratory to accompany ENGIN 232 (Circuit Analysis II). Topics include ac power and phase measurements, frequency response, transformers, Laplace and Fourier analysis.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: ENGIN 232
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ENGIN 304 - Engineering Design
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
ENGIN 304 is a course in Engineering Design which counts as an elective for Engineering majors. Topics include CAD, manufacturing processes, human-centered design, failure analysis, and project management. ENGIN 304 may not be taken at the same time as ENGIN 491 or ENGIN 492 .
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGIN 104 and ENGIN 231
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ENGIN 321 - Signals and Systems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The concepts of signals and systems arise in all areas of technology, e.g. signal processing. This course provides an introduction to the analysis of linear systems in the time- and frequency-domain, e.g. what is the output of a system if we know the input and the impulse response function or the transfer function of the system, how to characterize a system by stimulating it and measuring the output signals. Students will learn about the input/output differential or difference equation, the convolution theorem and its applications, the continuous- and discrete-time Fourier and Laplace transforms, and how to use Matlab in solving problems.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGIN 232 and MATH 242
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ENGIN 322 - Probability and Random Processes
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to probabilistic description (via the probability density function or distribution function) and statistical description (via the ensemble average, variance, etc.) of random signals as applied to the analysis of linear systems. Other topics include conditional probability, statistical independence, correlation, sampling theory, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, stationary and ergodic processes, auto-correlation and cross-correlation functions, spectral density, and their interconnections.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 321
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ENGIN 331 - Fields & Waves
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course will cover topics including vector analysis, electrostatic fields in vacuum and material media, stationary currents in conducting media, magnetostatic fields in vacuum and material media, Maxwell’s equations and time-dependent electric and magnetic fields, electromagnetic waves and radiation, transmission lines, wave guides, and applications.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PHYSIC 114 and MATH 242 and 310
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ENGIN 341 - Advanced Digital Design
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course will cover topics including tools and methodologies for top-down design of complex digital systems. Important topics include minimization, mixed logic, algorithmic state machines, microprogrammed controllers, creating and using a gold model, data and control path design, and data movement and routing via buses. Design methodologies covered include managing the design process from concept to implementation, gold model validation, and introduction to design flow. A hardware description language is used extensively to demonstrate models and methodologies, and is also used in design exercises and projects.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 241
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ENGIN 346 - Microcontrollers
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A hands-on approach to microprocessor and peripheral system programming, I/O interfacing, and soft and real-time interrupt management, using a mixture of assembly and higher-level programming languages.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGIN 241 and CS 240 or permission of instructor
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ENGIN 351 - Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course will cover topics including semiconductor materials, basic device physics, pn-junctions, metal-semiconductor junctions, and both bipolar and metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 365 or permission of instructor
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ENGIN 365 - Electronics I with Lab
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A brief introduction to semiconductor physics, leading to physical characteristics of pn junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, and field effect transistors. Circuit models for diodes, transistors and operational amplifiers and their use in practical circuits. Analysis of linear circuits based on application of circuit models of devices and circuit theory. Note: When this course is not being offered, students may instead take PHYSIC 391 (Basic Electronics with Lab).
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGIN 232 and MATH 242
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ENGIN 366 - Electronics II with Lab
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Continuation of ENGIN 365. Differential, operational amplifiers and applications, transistor amplifiers at very high frequencies, direct-coupled and band-pass, small- and large-signal, feedback amplifiers; and oscillators. Active filters, waveform generation including Schmitt trigger, multiplexers, A/D and D/A converters. Circuit design employing IC operational amplifiers, discrete devices, SPICE. An electronic design project constitutes a major part of the course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 365
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ENGIN 421 - Radar Systems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a course for electrical engineering majors providing an introduction to radar systems, signal processing, and applications. Topics covered during lecture include: description of radar architecture and components; common radar applications; choice of operation parameters, mathematical models for radar signals and scattering, review of Fourier Transform properties, application of Fourier transform to range compression and Doppler processing, emphasis on special topics such as police speed radar and SAR image formation. Laboratory work will include Matlab processing of experimental radar data.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 321
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ENGIN 441 - Embedded Systems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course covers fundamentals of embedded systems: architecture, programming, design, and interfacing. Topics include processors and hardware for embedded systems, embedded programming and real time operating systems. The course will cover technologies and methods using computer Aided Design (CAD) design tools for implementation of complex digital systems using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). It provides advanced methods of digital circuit design, specification, synthesis, implementation and prototyping.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 341
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ENGIN 446 - Computer Architecture Design
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to computer architectures; analysis and design of computer subsystems including central processing units, memories and input/output subsystems; important concepts include datapaths, computer arithmetic, instruction cycles, pipelining, virtual and cache memories, direct memory access and controller design.
Enrollment Requirements:
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ENGIN 451 - Semiconductor Device Design, Simulation and Fabrication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This hands-on course will cover topics including design, simulation, fabrication, and characterization of basic semiconductor devices made of either silicon or compound III-V semiconductors as well as the fabrication methods needed to produce such devices.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 351
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ENGIN 471 - RF/Microwave Circuits
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is the first of a two course sequence on modern microwave engineering. This course will cover primarily passive circuit design and analysis, specifically: transmission line theory and waveguides, microwave network analysis, impedance matching and tuning, power dividers and couplers, microwave resonators, and microwave filters. This course will utilize computer-aided design (CAD) tools as well as a microwave laboratory experience for assignments and team projects.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGIN 232 and ENGIN 272 and ENGIN 331
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ENGIN 478 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Independent Study |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
Study of an engineering topic or work on a research project by a student or group of students under faculty supervision on subjects not currently offered in a regularly scheduled course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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ENGIN 491 - Senior Design Project I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
ENGIN 491, Senior Design Project I is the first semester of the two-part, two-semester Senior Design Project sequence (ENGIN 491/492 ) designed to help students prepare to make the transition to the Engineering workplace. During the first semester (ENGIN 491), students work in project teams to create a design solution to an engineering problem, and use their technical writing and presentation skills to produce a project plan and design report.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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ENGIN 492 - Senior Design Project II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
ENGIN 492, Senior Design Project II is the second semester of the two-part, two-semester Senior Design Project sequence (ENGIN 491 /492) designed to help students prepare to make the transition to the engineering workplace. As a continuation of ENGIN 491 , during the second semester (ENGIN 492), students work in project teams to implement the design solution to an engineering problem that they came up with in ENGIN 491 , and continue to practice their technical writing skills to produce final reports as well as technical manuals for their device/software, in addition to presenting their products and/or findings to a group of panelists consisting of people as potential customers.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 491
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ENGL 101 - Composition I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Composition I is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. Composition I teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section. Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College’s first-year writing requirements.
Enrollment Requirements:
Degree students only
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ENGL 105 - Reading the University
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
What is a university and what is its purpose? Many assume that the university is designed to train people for jobs and improve their earning potential, but are these its main objectives? What do universities require courses that seem to bear no direct relevance on the career path of many students? And what value do the humanities have in a university curriculum? This course introduces students to university education through critical reading and active engagement with the humanities. As a complement to the ‘writing intensive’ course within the general education curriculum, this ‘reading intensive’ course aims to help students establish a balance between their career and civic goals for their university learning. Students will therefore read the university within the specific context of UMass Boston to reveal the economic, political and social issues the university is facing. The university will be unpacked to expose its structure, its curricula, and its role in society, all in an effort to empower students to take charge of their education and make it meaningful for them before and beyond graduation. This is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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ENGL 110 - Reading Like a Writer
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Students will learn to understand, use, and refine the techniques used by creative writers. Through weekly readings and discussion, students will become acquainted with how individual works of literature produce their effects, focusing not so much on what a piece means, but how meaning is made. Classic and contemporary examples of the genres of poetry and fiction will be studies with the goal of understanding the ways writers imagine elements of language, structure, and process to create a fully developed work. Class work will include in-class writing, examinations, creative-writing assignments, and attendance at one poetry or fiction reading during the semester with the goal of producing a final portfolio of creative work.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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ENGL 120 - What to Read: Life-Changing Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
If students could gather English professors in a room and find out what novels, stories, poets, and films they find most exciting, what would the students learn? This course offers an introduction to literature written in English, from medieval England to the present, exploring how literature inspires a deeper understanding of the self, others, and society. A team of English professors explain what literary works they have found to be most meaningful and important, offering students the opportunity to experience the life-changing power of literature. The text and the lecturer change every week, while students participate in a weekly discussion section. Lectures, discussions and writing assignments cultivate skills of active and open-ended interpretation, literary analysis, conceptual thinking, and the investigation of varied cultural forms.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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ENGL 121 - Poetry Matters: Connecting Poetry and Patients
6 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
How can poetry matter to patients young and old suffering from disorienting diseases? Students find out in this double-section course combining a first section that focuses on literature reflecting the philosophy of care with a beginner-level poetry workshop in which students will write their own poems of care. The aural quality of poetry matters to those needing comfort and class visits from poets enhance our learning about how poetry can help heal. Site visits to 1-2 care facilities during class time reveal how to put critical and creative reading and writing into action during hands-on personal interaction with young patients. Students who are community-minded, or feel strongly about reaching out to those in need, will find in the course ways that literature, and poetry in particular, has a strong pull for those experiencing tough medical challenges. This is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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ENGL 123 - Adaptations: Literature, Film, and Beyond
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is open to anyone interested in how stories get told in different ways. It is an introduction to thinking about literary forms in relation to narratives, so that we can learn to see the craft necessary for authors to transform a well-known poem into a novel, or a play into another play, or a novel into a film. We will also learn some of the basic elements of Adaptation Studies to learn how scholars think about adaptations and how they revivify narrative, returning readers to older literary texts in new ways.
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ENGL 124 - Science Fiction: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Science Fiction has been one of the most popular genres of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, extending from a niche literary market into film, television, comics and even music. Given its cultural pervasiveness, in many ways, science fiction has become the key touchstone for popular culture. In this course, we will chart the development of science fiction as a distinct popular cultural form, paying particular attention to its defining characteristics. As such, we’ll study a wide range of themes and issues central to science fiction literature: early narratives that champion a scientific sense of wonder and possibility alongside others that articulate fears of technological destruction; the development of the “first-contact” narrative that imagines meetings between humans and aliens both positively and negatively; the alternating hopes and fears that characterize utopias and dystopias; the dreams of an elsewhere captured in intergalactic space operas; imaginative conceptions of temporality in time travel and alternative history narratives; and the development of cyberpunk and its focus on the integration of humans with cybernetic technology and the development of artificial intelligence. Alongside the exploration of science fiction as a recognizable set of familiar narratives, we’ll also study how these narratives relate to their own historical and cultural moments, expressing particular hopes and fears, anxieties and desires. Readings will mainly be short stories that we’ll supplement with some critical essays about the history and aesthetics of science fiction.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
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ENGL 125 - From Crime to Sci-Fi: Popular Literary Genres
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the popular literary genres we use to categorize literature, including crime and detective fiction, science fiction, horror, action-adventure, western, and romance. Students in the course will address the thought-provoking questions raised by the different genre formulas that define literature: Why do we categorize literature into these different types? Do these different types limit or expand the reading experience? Do these different genres require a repetition of plot or do they encourage plot innovation? Students will define each genre’s key characteristics and historical development. Students will investigate what genre reveals about today’s popular reading and writing experience.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
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ENGL 126 - Young Adult Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Young adult fiction is a booming segment of the book publishing industry. This course investigates why, in our increasingly sophisticated storytelling culture, we turn to novels that are supposedly aimed at a “younger” audience. What attracts readers of all ages to young adult literature? We will examine how these novels use well-known plot structures and literary devices to create compellingly artistic stories. We will also examine how young adult literature tackles difficult topics, such as race, class, gender, and sexuality, in stories that mange to be both accessible and deeply thought provoking in their portrayals of diversity. Although this class features young adult literature, it has a heavy reading load and a fast-paced reading schedule.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
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ENGL 130 - Vikings!: The Literature of Scandinavia, Medieval and Postmodern
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this class we will take a critical look at popular portrayals of Vikings in film, television, literature, and comics by familiarizing ourselves with actual medieval texts about Vikings and the Viking Age. We will read (in English translations) from the famous Icelandic Sagas of Vikings as well as from poetry that memorializes warrior-kings and tells of dragon slayings. But we will also consider writings about the Vikings from cultures that fell victim to their raids and invasions, including the great Old English poem Beowulf. We will thus be able to critically compare contemporary uses and portrayals of the Vikings with the medieval sources, and will even trace some of the sources for the narratives of Tolkien’s famous Lord of the Rings. Our study of Viking Literatures will be also rooted in their various historical contexts, which will give us a more complex understanding of a society and its very rich literary and artistic traditions than many popular portrayals. These literatures will offer us fascinating insights into the society of the Vikings and their Anglo-Saxon victims, including elements of religion, gender and sexuality, economy, technologies of violence, and government. We will have to take on some very difficult questions about how and why texts both then and now represent violence as we equip ourselves to better understand Viking Literatures, but there will also be much to surprise and to delight in these rich cultural forms.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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ENGL 135 - American Stories
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course asks essential question about American literature: What does it mean to be American? How do we tell stories about who we are? Have those stories remained the same or have we changes? How do we define ourselves over time? Students in “American Stories” will encounter the classic and contemporary narratives that define American literature and culture. From Benjamin Franklin to Junot Diaz, students will read across genres, historical periods, and perspectives. Themes might include the mythology of the American Dream, particularly the American emphasis on individualism, and the place of the U.S. in global context. In addition to attending lectures, students will write brief weekly reflections and participate in discussion sections.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
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ENGL 200 - Introduction to Literary Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the practice of literary studies, with a particular emphasis on the skills involved in close reading and analytical writing. Through an exploration of fiction, drama, and poetry, students will develop the capacity to consider texts in their historical and cultural contexts as well as to apply a range of critical frameworks. Ultimately, this course will equip students with a set of tools for interpretation and techniques for writing effectively about literature that will serve them throughout the English major.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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ENGL 201 - Five British Authors
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Representative works by five of the most important writers from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, studied as introductions to philosophical and humanistic studies, explored as reflecting and shaping the leading ideas, assumptions, and values of their ages. Works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and other authors such as Milton, Swift, and Austen, with films and background lectures on the philosophical and historical contexts of the works and their authors. Instruction in analytical reading and writing is provided.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 102
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ENGL 202 - Six American Authors
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The achievements of American literature in articulating the American mind is illustrated by works from some well-known American writers-Thoreau, Dickinson, Faulkner, for example-as well as from those who deserve to be better known, such as William Wells Brown, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
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ENGL 203 - Writing Craft/Context/Design
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to rhetorical, literary, and critical approaches to studying and producing writing as they play out across a range of contexts–in print and digital media, in the workplace, in journalistic and artistic venues, and in academic settings. The course will also pay attention to the role of editing and publishing in text production. Framing writing in terms of genre, purpose, audience, and compositional practice, the course will introduce students to aspects of writing that span different situations: collaborative writing, visual and verbal design, and research practices. Other topics include learning about the range of career opportunities in English studies and primary and secondary research methods.
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ENGL 204 - Professional Writing
Formerly Professional and Technical Writing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
No matter what career they choose after graduation, successful professionals need to understand the dynamics of workplace writing. This course is designed to introduce students to rhetorical approach to workplace writing and support them along their chosen career path. This course will take a humanities approach to workplace writing, attending to the way language shapes the production and reception of workplace writing and its circulation. In this course, students will analyze common documents and the ways in which these documents create particular worlds for users. Students will compose workplace documents with specific attention to the needs of audiences and institutions. Time will also be spent paying attention to document design and usability. Finally, students will explore the ethics of workplace writing paying specific attention to how it uplifts or oppresses historically oppressed communities. Students will produce writing suitable for the writing proficiency requirement portfolio.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 .
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ENGL 209 - Writing on Local Issues, Arts, and Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This immersive writing and publishing course will take you into the center of Boston’s arts and culture scene, providing you with the tools and the platform you need to develop and establish your own voice and views. From the MFA to the Massachusetts State House, from the Institute of Contemporary Art to the Boston Public Library, students will each create their own blog and publish writing that uses research and analysis to consider the history of a Boston institution and/or review an event, exhibit, culture moment, or performance. This course includes a lot of FREE field trips and independent excursions; class will meet just once a week, to facilitate this. A major assignment in this course may be included in a Writing Requirement portfolio. This is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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ENGL 210 - Introduction to Creative Writing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides an introduction to the arts through the medium of creative writing. The course focuses on writing stories and poems, as well as reading fiction and poetry. Additional genres of writing may be introduced. Student writing is submitted weekly and discussed in class. Students are encouraged to explore issues of literary form, style, and voice, developing creativity and experiencing the importance of artistic expression. Not experience in creative writing is required.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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ENGL 211 - Creative Writing: Poetry
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides an introduction to the writing of poetry for students who may or may not have had prior experience. Students read poetry as a basis for learning to write it, and class discussion focuses both on assigned readings and on student work. Student writing is submitted weekly and is strengthened through in-class workshops, revision exercises, and portfolio compilations. Individual conferences with the instructor are required. Students are encouraged to explore issues of poetic form and content, developing knowledge about poetry while developing creative, analytical, and artistic skills.
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ENGL 212 - Creative Writing: Fiction
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides an introduction to the writing of fiction for students who may or may not have had prior experience. Students read fiction as a basis for learning to write it, and class discussion focuses both on assigned readings and on student work. Student writing is submitted weekly and is strengthened through in-class workshops, revision exercises, and portfolio compilations. Individual conferences with the instructor are required. Students are encouraged to explore prose fiction’s form and content, developing knowledge about fiction while developing creative, analytical, and artistic skills.
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ENGL 216 - Reading and Writing Journalism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This introductory course provides students with a foundation in the art of journalism with an emphasis on critical reading and writing. Throughout the semester, students read classic and contemporary works by prize-winning journalists and produce and analytical responses that consider these works with respect to critical debates in the field–questions of objectivity, representation, reporting methods, and the public interest. Using these writers as models, the course covers principles of style, structure, audience, and genre, as well as the legal and ethical frameworks that govern the journalistic profession. Through guided writing assignments, students are invited to try their hand at a range of journalistic genres, such as news reporting, profiles, and editorials. This course welcomes students of all levels; no previous experience in journalism is expected or required.
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ENGL 223 - Latino/Latina/Latinx Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will offer a survey of Latino/a/x literary voices drawn from the Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and other Latin American migrations to the U.S. In addition to encountering a range of genres, students in this course will explore concepts, such as the bilingual self; the barrio vs. the borderland; immigrant autobiography; and the construction of ethnic American literature itself.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
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ENGL 225 - Graphic Novels
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers an introduction to the study of image and text through an analysis of selected graphic novels. The course investigates a fascinating range of relationships between images and words, as well as the roles these relationships play in our language and in our ways of thinking about story-telling, truth, memory, identity, and power.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
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ENGL 230 - King Arthur
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the narrative of “England’s greatest king” through the comparative study of media (manuscript, print, film, and television) and genres (poems, novels, screenplays). Students will examine how the Arthur legend contributes to our understanding of the humanities and literary production. Topics to be explored include the human fascination for quest-narratives, the transnational contexts shaping popular mythology, and the interpretation of cultural and religious symbols in the humanities.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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ENGL 236 - Reading, Writing, and Archives: Literary Boston
Formerly Literary Boston
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Whose story gets told? How is that story told and remembered? Whose story doesn’t get told, or gets hidden? The answers to these questions for students of literature, rhetoric, and language are found in archives, living treasures of human experience. This course is an exploration of archives generally and Boston archives in particular, as it creates an opportunity for students to read and interpret letters, diaries, journals, books, short stories, publications, and other original literary material in order to discover the specific literary, cultural, geographic, and social moments in which they were created. The course will feature field trips, workshops, and instructional research sessions in order to engage with material like the Hemingway Papers at JFK Library and Archive, meet literary women preserved within the Schlesinger Library at Harvard’s digital repository, learn about community archives for LGBTQ Boston, and examine multiple local collections from the University Archives and Special Collections on UMass Boston’s campus. This course teaches basic methods for students to begin to construct and reconstruct stories, and to start out further work where the individual’s interests in literature, writing, theory, and/or language may take them. The course is aligned with the aims of the Humanities General Education requirement which asks students to develop an informed appreciation of human culture and an exploration of the human condition, and is a hands-on, Interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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ENGL 242 - Grammar for Every Writer
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Good writing is impossible without grammar. From art history to zoology, from politics to publishing, every discipline and profession relics on the invisible rules of grammar. This course is for writers and readers of every type, whether you feel like you missed learning about grammar and now want to know what it is all about, or whether you arc an advanced student of English language and writing. We will learn about grammatical rules and norms, but we will also learn about how grammar develops, changes and performs rhetorical functions in relation to region, gender, socioeconomic and political forces, and ethnicity.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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ENGL 245 - Global Voices
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a critical introduction to literature written in what has become arguable the globe’s primary language of commerce, government, law, and education. The course examines fiction writers, playwrights, and poets from locations outside England and North America who have claimed the English language as their own and used it with energy and creative verve. Readings will survey works in English from Africa, Asia, and Australia, among other places, with attention o their heterogeneity and complexity. Key topics include identity, nationalism, gender, feminisms, memory, conflict, exile, nostalgia, postcoloniality, and citizenship.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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ENGL 248 - Utopia/Dystopia Across Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Visions of Utopia represent the desire for a better, more just society. They engage the free-play of the political imagination as a form of wish-fulfillment and social daydreaming in order to extrapolate better worlds from the less than perfect present worlds of specific societies. As the negative reflection of utopian desire, dystopias similarly interrogate their societies, magnifying and exacerbating troubling political and social injustices. In this course, we will first trace the development of utopian/dystopian thought and its historical origins in literature and philosophy. From here, we will examine contemporary manifestations of utopia/dystopia in diverse societies in a variety of different mediums (including film, music, graphic novels and literature, as well as religious writings, legal and political documents, and philosophical works). We’ll focus on interpreting these utopian and dystopian texts as particular instantiations of cultural work in different societies in response to specific historical and political conditions. In keeping with this cross-cultural approach, the course will engage with a range of modern utopian/dystopian texts from at least four broad perspectives: African, American, European, and Afrofuturist-diasporic. These perspectives will allow us to analyze how utopian and dystopian works are always positioned at the border between defining a particular culture at a particular moment in time (how the writers of the text perceive their culture, its faults, its possibilities) and cultural change (the utopia or dystopia that this culture may transform or harden into given these traits). That is, despite a pretense towards universalism, utopias and dystopias are always about particular wish fulfillments rooted in localized, existing socio-cultural-political conditions. They are always raced, classed, and gendered, revealing issues of cultural conflict within their given local cultural determinations. Given these conditions, students will learn to think through the ethnocentric problems of utopian/dystopian cultural production: that one person’s utopia is another’s dystopia, as well as how the utopian tradition has attempted to work through this problem in its own formal transformations.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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ENGL 249 - Animal Lit
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Animal Studies is a fairly recent development in literary studies that asks critical questions about how animals are represented and imagined in both literary and non-literary texts, thereby challenging our traditional ways of defining the boundary between humans and animals. Questions that the course may consider include: What are animals thinking? Do they dream, reason, theorize? They communicate to each other, but can they talk, and can we talk with them? Or is this a human dream and animals have their own dreams that we can’t access? Is there a larger question of beingness here we can think about? Are animals different for us according to whether we love them or fear them, ride them or eat them? We will be reading a series of texts that will help us raise questions about the animal as ‘the other,’ whether companion-other or feared-other, and about what it means as a writer to try to speak for animal being and the nonhuman generally.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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ENGL 258 - Introduction to World Cinema
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Discussion |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers an introduction to the study of world cinema as form of artistic and cultural expression. Together we will acquire and develop a greater understanding of and more informed appreciation for international film, learning to interpret, analyze, and reflect on this important global art from. This course will emphasize several ways of approaching world cinema; its creation within a cultural context; its representation of diverse peoples and their values, beliefs, and ideals; its depiction of events-past, present, and future; its use of clearly-defined cinematic techniques; its narrative or storytelling structure; its connection to specific film genres; its place in the trajectory of film history; its reflection on larger themes of the human condition. This course will also explore the place of film in contemporary world culture. How does international cinema provide a means of understanding other cultures? What function does film have: is it an art, entertainment, or profit-making product? Does film offer an escape from reality, a critique of reality, or a heightened experience of reality?
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
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ENGL 259 - Sexuality in Literature & Film
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers an introduction to sexuality studies through an interdisciplinary approach to literature and film produced in English. Attention will be paid to the way that different cultures have thought and talked about sexuality, as well as how they have experienced and performed it. Key concepts include gender socialization, social constructionism, performance theory, and the disciplining of bodies and sexual desire.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
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ENGL 268 - Outbreak! On Reading Narratives of Infectious Disease
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
English 268 is designed to draw students from across all majors to the humanities by focusing on an issue that impacts everyone: infectious diseases, and the stories that are told about them. The material in the course comes from many sources: archival documents, the science of epidemiology, accounts in creative non-fiction, and works of imaginative literature. The class will visit historical sites and perform their own archival research in the Massachusetts state archives. This is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon foundation.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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ENGL 284 - Language, Literacy and Community
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to be taken in conjunction with ENGL 285 . It provides theoretical and practical foundations for teaching second language adult literacy. Course work considers participants’ own language/literacy acquisition processes and practice as tutors. The course focuses on learner-centered approaches to teaching adult ESL/literacy.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
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ENGL 285 - Tutor Training: ESL
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course emphasizes the theoretical and practical issues in the teaching of ESL, thus providing tutors with a framework with which to view their own teaching and observation experiences. Readings and discussions address materials development, instructional techniques, and textbook evaluation. Open only to UMass Boston ESL tutors.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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ENGL 292L - Cinema, Sex, and Censorship
Formerly ENGL 292
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Discussion | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the history of sex in American cinema by tracing the history of the representation of sex and sexuality from early cinema and the vaudeville tradition to contemporary engagements with queerness, non-normative desires, and artificial intelligence. Students will examine key moments in film history related to sex and censorship, including the scandals of pre-code Hollywood, the rise of the Hays Codes, the development of underground and the exploitation cinemas, and the emergence of the Motion Picture Rating System, as well a range of issues related to sexuality and desire, including same-sex desire, repression, sexual violence, the AIDS crisis, and sex and technology. Students will watch both mainstream, commercial films and smaller, independent art films, as well as B-movies and low budget films, to examine how sex and sexuality have been represented and censored across the broad spectrum of American cinema. This course will occur on the schedule on a rotating and irregular basis.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 .
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